Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-03-25
STILL IN IDAHO!
THE PRESIDENT OBJECTS
TO ANNEXATION AND KILLS
ITBY A POCKET VETO.
I" 1NOn Bene Palma ReUQue. .

Owing to the blockade ON the noun
tain no authentic information of the
fate of the annexation bill reached here
until last Friday, when letters and
papers were received announcing that
it had been killed by pocket veto.
This action on the part of the pres
ident was totally unexpected, and he
himself gave no reason for ity other
than that he had received dispatch
from gov. Stevenson protesting against
it, and that he could see no reason why
he should sign it.. A great many peo-
pie in these northern counties are also
unable to see any reason for switching
us off from one territory to another.
Prior dispatches stated that when the
bill passed the senate, the president
sent to the senate committee on terri
tories for the remonstranees, protests,
and petitions against annexation which
had been fled by the people of Idaho.
| rhe fight to defeat the Dill was made in
| that committe, and when 1t reported
favorably and the senate passed 1t, we
naturally lost hope and fully expected
to form part of Washington territory.
The bill went through both houses OF
congress like scared wolf. Poor ldaho
seemed lamb among herd OF raven
GUS coyotes, but as victory Is not always
ITO the strong, and the fastest lrotter
sometimes gets left, 50 our territory was
saved in its last extremity like a brano
plucked from the burning by the strong
arm of the PRESIDENT
There was a time-away back in SOM
remote period of ancient hlstory-sa.
in 1882. when the sentiment OF thes,
northern counties was practically
Puuit in favor of annexation, bat at thl
time there is strong seAument
hostility to annexation in any shape
form. The movement originally wa
ssincere, but of late years it has fallei
into the hands cf professional politl
clans who have used it in the interes
of the republican party. Down to tn
S election of 1884 there was not demo
cratic newspaper in all north Idah'
and the democrats were sedoced by
united republican press into voting tn
. so-called republican-annexatlon tlcke
John HALEY, democrat, VINO di
more for annexation than anybod.
= only received a fraction over his part
vote in these northern counties, whil
his opponent was pronounced again'
annexation. In the Ceur d'Alene cour
try the sentiment against annexatio
is strong enough to Offset all the strengt
of the movement in Nez Peree an
| Idaho coanties.
1t is not probable now that the obje
will ever be attained, or even honest
hoped for, even by its most ardei
e friends in the teeth of the opposite
it is sure to provoke, although it ma
be resurrected by the politician
among us who are annexationists
partisan advantage only. We say tn
in no exulting spirit. There are ne'
comers among us who are not infect'
s. with that unreasoning hatred OF sou
ce Idaho which prevails among the eg
81 headed old-timers in Lewiston WI
hatched the annexation egg as reta
atoyv measure for the loss of the capt.
or twenty wears ago. And even in Lew
L: ton and our own county, where y
= main strength of the measure Is co
centered. there are many former anne
+ at;onists who are now unwilling
= exchange upon any terms the oroa
,S ouaee ideas of liberty and toierati
which prevail in Idaho, Tor the PEI
tvrannies and puritanical features
the experimental legislation when
Us of late years been enacted In "%
ington territory.
we now leave the subject, with
i've hope that it will never again De a 10
'ast !, st of newspaper discussion Let US n
to mutually forget and forgive the a
JLp mosi,ies it has engendered, and dev
be be ourselves with renewed and UNI
tail energy, to the Development oi III
fertile fields whereon we nave lh'
&c. our common home.